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The novel was turned into several films, including Bel Ami ( 1939 ), The Private Affairs of Bel Ami ( 1949 ), starring George Sanders and itself the first version in English, a 1971 TV series a 1976 Swedish pornographic version, starring Harry Reems and also known as For Men Only, which had the tagline " Harry Reems ' Last Adult Film ", a 2005 French / Belgian version made for television, starring Sagamore Stévenin, and the 2012 version, Bel Ami, with Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Christina Ricci and Holliday Grainger.
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The novel was not only the presenter of the new, secular, rationalistic, private world of the middle class.
Lewis was spending his mornings, with the help of two secretaries, on the galleys of that long novel, making considerable revisions, and the combination of hard work and hard frivolity exhausted him once more, so that he was compelled to spend three days in the Harbor Sanatorium in the last week of January.
Krim was able to get an advance for a novel, and time and opportunity to write at Yaddo, but it was no good.
He was thinking his way into a new novel, a big one, one that people had been waiting for.
His lordship was concerned in the management of Drury Lane but, if there were no opportunities there, would he read and criticize her novel??
Postmaster General J. Edward Day, who must deal with matters of postal censorship, is himself author of a novel, Bartholf Street, albeit one he was obliged to publish at his own expense.
A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.
Mr. Remarque's conception of this novel was sound and perhaps even noble.
the book was a fine historical novel about Edward 3,, and I did a week of research to get the details just right: the fifteenth-century armor, furnishings, clothes.
As a first step, Algerian literature was marked by works whose main concern was the assertion of the Algerian national entity, there is the publication of novels as the Algerian trilogy of Mohammed Dib, or even Nedjma of Kateb Yacine novel which is often regarded as a monumental and major work.
Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.
According to Burgess, the novel was a jeu d ' esprit written in just three weeks.
In 1950 it was combined with " War of Nerves " ( 1950 ), " Discord in Scarlet " ( 1939 ) and " M33 in Andromeda " ( 1943 ) to form the novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle ( 1950 ).
He wrote a mainstream novel that was set in Communist China, The Violent Man ( 1962 ); he said that to research this book he had read 100 books about China.
According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.
The scenes at the end of the novel, when Oran's gates are reopened, recall the jubilant scenes in Paris when the city was liberated in 1944.
Her first appearance in a full-length novel was in The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930.
The novel was not published until shortly after Christie's death in 1976, some thirty-six years after it was originally written.
This first film was based on the 1957 novel 4: 50 from Paddington ( U. S. title, What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!
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Disraeli turned towards literature after his financial disaster, motivated in part by a desperate need for money, and brought out his first novel, Vivian Grey, in 1826.
He was cast as a stable boy turned swashbuckler Westley in Rob Reiner's fantasy-comedy The Princess Bride, based on the novel of the same name by William Goldman.
Ivanhoe is sometimes credited for increasing interest in Romanticism and Medievalism ; John Henry Newman claimed Scott " had first turned men's minds in the direction of the middle ages ," while Carlyle and Ruskin made similar claims to Scott's overwhelming influence over the revival based primarily on the publication of this novel.
Frankenheimer and producer George Axelrod bought Richard Condon's 1959 novel after it had already been turned down by many Hollywood studios.
This novel idea was turned down by the conservative emperor, who thought that he had already given the chancellor enough rewards.
In the 1771 German novel Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim by Sophie von La Roche, a high-minded character complains about the newly introduced waltz among aristocrats thus: " But when he put his arm around her, pressed her to his breast, cavorted with her in the shameless, indecent whirling-dance of the Germans and engaged in a familiarity that broke all the bounds of good breeding — then my silent misery turned into burning rage.
Similarly, his attempt to write a popular novel in collaboration with Tadeusz Kępiński turned out to be a failure.
* The Lady of the Camellias was a novel about a courtesan by French author Alexandre Dumas, fils that was turned into the opera La Traviata by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi.
This is the only musical adaptation authorized by Bradbury himself, who turned down Lerner and Loewe in the 1960s when they asked his permission to make a musical based on the novel.
The mime " Tombre " of Jean Richepin's novel Nice People ( Braves Gens ) turned him into a pathetic and alcoholic " phantom "; Paul Verlaine imagined him as a gormandizing naïf in " Pantomime " ( 1869 ), then, like Tombre, as a lightning-lit specter in " Pierrot " ( 1868, pub.
Without explanations, the novel follows him as he searches a place to stay for the night and is turned away.
The novel was first published in 1996 by the U. K. publisher and turned into an international success.
* C. P. Snow's Death Under Sail ( 1932 ), his first novel, after which he turned to mainstream fiction ; it features unusually complex characters for a mystery of this period
It turned out to be a concert — something novel and of high quality.
The Monk also turned up in the New Adventures novel No Future by Paul Cornell, in which he was given the name " Mortimus ".
Doohan played the lead role in the CBC TV drama production Flight into Danger written by Arthur Hailey who turned it into the novel Runway Zero-Eight, later adapted as Terror in the Sky.
Empusa is a main antagonist turned heroine in the novel Grecian Rune by James Matthew Byers.
Six weeks after publication of the novel, the Boston Post newspaper published another alien invasion story, an unauthorized sequel to The War of the Worlds, which turned the tables on the invaders.
This series includes, for example, Ethel Lina White's novel The Wheel Spins ( 1936 ), which Alfred Hitchcock — before he went to Hollywood — turned into a much-loved movie entitled The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ), and Ira Levin's ( born 1929 ) science fiction thriller The Boys from Brazil ( 1976 ), which was filmed in 1978.
An American rabbi, H. M. Bien, turned the character into the " Wandering Gentile " in his novel
* The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: It is possible that the White Witch from C. S. Lewis's novel may be based on the Snow Queen, as she turned Narnia into a snow-covered land, and is also depicted as wearing a white fur coat.
Examples of de Clerambault's syndrome ( erotomania ) in fiction include Ian McEwan's novel Enduring Love, which was later turned into a film also called Enduring Love ; the American movies Fatal Attraction and The Bodyguard, the Portuguese film O Fantasma ( 2001 ) and the French films Anna M. ( 2007 ) and Laetitia Colombani's À la folie ... pas du tout ( 2002 ).
In 1993, the novel was also turned into a feature film ( of the same name ) starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Ellen Barkin.
The first person narrator of the novel is an unnamed medical doctor turned politician ( called Dr Stephen Fleming in the Louis Malle film ) whose promotion from MP to cabinet member is imminent.
Chanslor's novel was a serious Western, and though it was turned into a comedy for the movie, the filmmakers retained some of the story's darker elements.
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